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Diane
This is my best effort. Just not sure about the maiden name of the mother of the groom. I think everything else is correct.
Peg
Dated July 19, 1835
Banns were made on three consecutive Sundays
1. June 29th
2. July 5th
3. July 12th
The priest: Don Giovanni di Gari-holy chaplain
Groom: Giuseppe Sardisco from the city of Monte-I think there is an abbreviation for his occupation after his name, which may be the abbreviation for the Latin word for writer-like scribe-
His parents: Antonino Sardisco and Cristina (Castellano-spelling???)
Bride: Maria Iannello-daughter of Maestro Rosario Iannello and Anna Fici
Witnesses: Maestro Angelo Farina, son of deceased Maestro Rosario Farina and Salvadore Loiacono, son of Giuseppe of Monte
The marriage was performed according to the use and rite of the Holy Church, and the couple was blessed today by the chaplain, who was performing the ceremony, during the holy mass in the stated Metropolitan Church.
The dialects of modern Italian all have their roots in the spoken form of Latin (Vulgar Latin), in use throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin had, no doubt, its own local peculiarities before the fall of the Empire. The political instability that followed Roman rule kept Italy from re-uniting as ...